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UK
/ʌnstˈɛdɪli/
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ADVERB
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in an unsteady manner
The wounded soldier was swinging unsteadily on his legs
he walked unsteadily toward the exit
How To Use unsteadily In A Sentence
- The guards, meanwhile, unshackled the young woman who stood unsteadily.
- Its arrangement of forms - a bulky, white rhomboid with curved sides that is balanced unsteadily on a dark rectangle - at first floats freely as a pure, nonrepresentational abstraction a la Ellsworth Kelly.
- At nine o ' clock, the bottle empty, he rose unsteadily from his chair. A TROUT IN THE MILK
- The carriage was moving, bumping unsteadily over rocks and crevices in the path.
- The play is a bit faded now and its dialogue unsteadily scintillating, but it still displays the suavity and sophistication that are Coward's trademarks.
- The ground wavered unsteadily beneath him and he couldn't help but curse as his back erupted in pain.
- Behind them another three girls, only slightly older, are tottering unsteadily to and from the bar in high-heels, serving beers to the largely local clientele.
- Lexa staggered unsteadily for a moment before falling to one knee, eyes tightly closed in pain, biting her lip to keep from crying out again.
- The bus jolts into slow forward movement, and Grace guides Allen unsteadily back on to his seat.
- At which Father Dooley rose unsteadily in his seat and denounced the philosophy behind the words.